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The Cheep Charger is a kart appearing in the Mario Kart series, debuting in Mario Kart Wii as an unlockable Small kart. It takes the design of a Cheep-Cheep with wheels and the tailfin as the booster. It has impressive stats for a kart, but has troubling speed and is the lightest kart in the game.

This kart also appears in Mario Kart Tour.

Description[]

As its name implies, the Cheep Charger largely resembles a Cheep-Cheep, which is mechanical-powered and bears wheels, with its tailfin as the exhaust. To make it a kart, part of the Cheep Cheep's body is removed for the driver to sit on. The character's emblem is located on the sides of the kart.

Color variants[]

Character Color Model
Body Underside Wheels
Baby Mario Red White Navy Blue Cheep Charger (Baby Mario) Model
Baby Luigi Green White Navy Blue Cheep Charger (Baby Luigi) Model
Baby Peach Pink White Blue Cheep Charger (Baby Peach) Model
Baby Daisy Orange White Teal Cheep Charger (Baby Daisy) Model
ToadIcon-MK7 Dark Blue White Red Cheep Charger (Toad) Model
Toadette Magenta White Deep Pink Cheep Charger (Toadette) Model
KoopaTroopaIcon-MK7 Lime Green Cream Sea Green Cheep Charger (Koopa Troopa) Model
Dry Bones Dark Gray White Dark Brown Cheep Charger (Dry Bones) Model
Mii Outfit 1
Male
Sky Blue White Navy Blue Cheep Charger (Small Male Mii) Model
Mii Outfit 1
Female
Yellow White Navy Blue Cheep Charger (Small Female Mii) Model

How to Unlock[]

Mario Kart Wii
  • Earn at least a 1-Star Rank in all 50cc Retro Cups.
  • Or play 1,800 Races.
Mario Kart Tour
  • Purchase it from the Daily Selects for 500 Coins if it appears.
  • Or obtain it from the Pipe.

Appearances[]

Mario Kart Wii[]

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Artwork of Baby Peach in the Cheep Charger with Triple Bananas stacked behind her.

The Cheep Charger makes its Mario Kart debut in this game, as an unlockable kart for Small racers. It's one of three unlockable karts in the Small class along with the Tiny Titan and the Blue Falcon. During races, its wings move when a trick is performed. Its bike counterpart is the Quacker, since they are based on an aquatic creature and have similar stats, as well as being the lightest vehicle of each type, while its medium counterpart is the Classic Dragster.

In terms of its statistics, the Cheep Charger has rather low Speed, and low Weight, making it the lightest kart in the game, as well as tying with the Magikruiser and the Bullet Bike for the 4th lightest vehicle in the game, behind the Quacker, the Bit Bike, and the Standard Bike S. It has high stats everywhere else - especially Acceleration, which is the highest of all karts and the second highest of all vehicles, behind the Quacker - apart from Off-Road, which is above-average. Its stat total is 336.

Excluding weight, it shares its Speed and Mini-Turbo with the Daytripper, its Handling and Off-Road with the Wario Bike and its Drift with the Shooting Star and the Wild Wing.

Statistics[]

Stat Name Stat Value
Speed
34/80
Weight
24/80
Acceleration
64/80
Handling
56/80
Drift
59/80
Off-Road
45/80
Mini-Turbo
54/80
Total 336

Staff Ghost usage[]

Mario Kart Tour[]

Green Cheep Charger

The Green Cheep Charger in Mario Kart Tour.

The Cheep Charger reappears as of the release of the mobile spin-off game, Mario Kart Tour, as a Normal Kart. The Cheep Charger has Jump Boost Plus, which increases the length of and the points earnt from Jump Boosts. It reuses Baby Mario's variant from Mario Kart Wii, now with a more regular seat, and it is equipped with the Sponge tires from Mario Kart 8 and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe.

There is another version of this kart, dubbed the Green Cheep Charger, which reuses Baby Luigi's variant. Like the regular Cheep Charger, it also has Jump Boost Plus and is classified as a Normal Kart. There is also a gold version, dubbed the Gold Cheep Charger, which is classified as High-End.

There is another kart in this game that looks very similar to the Cheep Charger, dubbed the Cheep Snorkel, which has snorkel gear. This kart is classified as High-End. This Kart also has a gold version, dubbed the Gold Cheep Snorkel.

Trivia![]

  • The Cheep Charger is battery-powered, meaning when it is flipped the battery is located on the underside, like the Blue Falcon.
  • This is the only unlockable kart revealed before Mario Kart Wii's release.
    • Toad and Baby Peach were seen driving it, and they also have artworks of them driving it.
  • The Cheep Charger is one of the five vehicles to come in with all of the traditional colors of the rainbow. The other four being the Classic Dragster, the Daytripper, the Dolphin Dasher, and the Honeycoupe.
    • This is the only small vehicle to come with all the traditional colors of the rainbow.
  • Dry Bones is the only character to have a gray seat, lips and tailfin instead of a yellow tailfin and seat and pink lips. This is due to Dry Bones' achromatic color-scheme.
  • Koopa Troopa is the only character to have a beige underside as opposed to a white one.
  • The Cheep Charger is one of the few vehicles that reacts when the player performs a Trick, along with the Super Blooper, the Booster Seat, and the Piranha Prowler.
  • If combined with Toadette, it can drift off road. It shares this trait with the Quacker.
  • Several variants of the Cheep Charger resemble actual variants of the Cheep Cheep: Baby Mario's resembles the regular Cheep Cheep, Baby Luigi and Koopa Troopa's resembles the Deep Cheep (while the former's resembles it more), a Female Mii's resembles the Eep Cheep and Toadette's resembles the Spiny Cheep Cheep (without the spines).
  • Baby Mario's and Baby Luigi's Cheep Charger are the only color schemes to reappear in Mario Kart Tour.
  • In Mario Kart Tour, smoke only exits the lower portion of the tailfin.

Gallery[]

Artworks[]

Miscellaneous[]

Mario Kart Wii vehicle parts
Karts Small Standard Kart SBooster SeatMini BeastCheep ChargerTiny TitanBlue Falcon
Medium Standard Kart MClassic DragsterWild WingSuper BlooperDaytripperSprinter
Large Standard Kart LOffroaderFlame FlyerPiranha ProwlerJetsetterHoneycoupe
Bikes Small Standard Bike SBullet BikeBit BikeQuackerMagikruiserJet Bubble
Medium Standard Bike MMach BikeSugarscootZip ZipSneaksterDolphin Dasher
Large Standard Bike LFlame RunnerWario BikeShooting StarSpearPhantom
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